ATS2922 · Everyday improvisation

Overview

How do you stay open and engaged when stakes are high? How do you respond to what's unfolding in the moment? How do you create something together that none of us could do alone? In this unit, you will use improvisation techniques from theatre and performance to develop skills for navigating uncertainty, generating creative solutions, and building meaningful collaborations across diverse creative, professional and personal contexts. Through improvisation exercises, games, and scene work, you'll build your capacity to listen deeply and stay present, think creatively under pressure, build on others' ideas, read social dynamics in real-time, and reframe failure as information and opportunity. You'll learn by doing—through practice in a playful, supportive ensemble where experimentation and risk-taking are celebrated. And you will collaborate across disciplines to explore how improvisational principles apply to real-world challenges such as creative collaborations, client pitches, corporate teambuilding, patient consultations, and public debates.

Areas of study: Theatre and performance Health humanities

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. apply improvisation principles across a range of personal and professional contexts;
2. collaborate effectively using active listening and ensemble techniques;
3. use creativity to adapt to changing circumstances;
4. create original performance works that explore improvisation in everyday contexts.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.